[cc-licenses] CC-BY of Wiki-Content - must I name ALL authors?
LinuxLala
linuxlala at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 05:21:17 EDT 2005
Hi Evan,
On 10/8/05, Evan Prodromou <evan at bad.dynu.ca> wrote:
>
> Assuming you haven't employed the "designated attribution" option, yes,
> you have to include contributors' names along with the article.
Ok. That's cool. I was just curious.
Anyways, why "get away with"? Why would that be a positive thing? I'm not
> sure exactly what this list is about, but figuring out loopholes in the
> licenses so you don't have to follow the stated or implicit requests of the
> copyright holders seems pretty outside the scope.
I did not intend the meaning that you think my "get away with" implies. I
only wanted to ask if a link to all the authors is enough, or does the
entire list need be published along with.
One more question while we are discussing wiki license -- Suppose there is a
> wiki licensed as CC-BY-NC. In this case, no newspaper/magazine can publish
> it 'coz they are not free, even though they are not making any extra money
> from the wiki article itself. So I am confused. What does NC have to say in
> this regard?
>
> It says that they can't publish it. If you want commercial organisations
> to use your work -- or non-commercial organisations or individuals to use
> your work in ways that require the exchange of money, don't use the
> NonCommercial clause.
I just wanted to clarify things. I neither run a wiki nor any
magazine/newspaper. It was just something that came to mind at 03:00 in the
morning.
If your point is that the NonCommercial licenses are short-sighted and
> self-defeating, well... duh.
:)
Thanks for claring things up.
-Shashank
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